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    The Wider Image: Migrants struggle to cope with Portugal’s ‘suffocating’

    Marcia Leandro, 43, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (L) and Andreia Costa, 50, from Sao Paulo, Brazil (R) clean an oven and some plates before cooking lunch next to the tents at the improvised campsite in a field where they live, in Carcavelos, Cascais, Portugal, September 27, 2023. Seeking a more comfortable life, Costa moved to Portugal from Brazil in 2022, but within months her hopes were dashed, as the country's housing crisis left her unable to afford accommodation and forced to live in a tent. On a site on the outskirts of Lisbon she was joined by other migrants and some locals, priced out of a city where rents have soared 94 percent since 2015 and house prices have risen 186 percent, according to housing data specialists Confidencial Imobiliario.  REUTERS/Pedro Nunes
    The Wider Image: Migrants struggle to cope with Portugal’s ‘suffocating’
    The Wider Image: Migrants struggle to cope with Portugal’s ‘suffocating’

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